Poroshenko: World War II could not be without the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – RIA Novosti

KIEV, April 10 – RIA Novosti. The President of Ukraine Poroshenko said that World War II could not start, if the Soviet Union and Germany signed in 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of non-aggression ; He noted that the USSR would not have won the war without the Ukrainians.

During his visit to Odessa on Friday, the Ukrainian leader criticized some statements “current Russian leadership” that ” allegedly Russia would have won the war without Ukraine “.

” would not have won the war without the Ukrainians, there is not even argue about. But the war had begun, if the Kremlin has not signed the infamous Molotov -Ribbentropa in 1939 – it is possible to debate, “- said the Ukrainian president.

Russian officials have repeatedly stressed that it was a total victory won by people of different nationalities. In particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the need to remember the heroism of all nationalities. State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that the officers and soldiers of the Soviet Army was one homeland, and “no one at the front had not occurred to share in the Russian and Armenians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Tatars and Georgians”.

This is not the first such statements Ukrainian officials. During a visit to Germany in January, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yatsenyuk has already spoken on the subject of World War II. Then, in an interview to ARD Yatsenyuk he said, “the Soviet invasion in Ukraine and in Germany.” Russian military historians have called the statement Yatsenyuk false and arrogant.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR was signed on August 23, 1939 in Moscow Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for 10 years. The initiator of the Treaty made the German side. Along with the contract, the parties signed a secret additional protocol, which distinguishes between the spheres of influence “in the event of a territorial and political rearrangement in the areas belonging to the Polish state”.